


I think that you're stuck with the workaround you mentioned in your edit. And of course you have to remember where you left them. You just need an empty area to park the coiped cells. I've done this with a range of cells so I imagine it would work with virtually any level of complexity. Go back to C and Move (not Copy) it to F.The relative references will change to R=P+Q but ignore this even if it's flagged as an error. Copy contents of C to any empty temporary column, say R.C=A+B) and you want the same formula in column F but Copying from C to F leads to F=D+E. Here's a simple example.Īssume you have raw data in columns A and B, and a formula in C (e.g. My method relies on the fact that Copy changes references but Move doesn't. But now I thnk my own workaround is simpler than most of these methods. I came to this site looking for an easy way to copy without changing cell references. Or, from : If you're a VBA programmer, you can simply execute the following code: Clear all of the Delimiter option checkmarks except Tab. Choose the Delimited option and click Next. You need to fire up the Convert Text to Columns Wizard. Note: If the paste operation back to Excel doesn't work correctly, chances are that you've used Excel's Text-to-Columns feature recently, and Excel is trying to be helpful by remembering how you last parsed your data. Press Ctrl+ ` to toggle out of formula view mode.And, make sure that the sheet you are copying to is in formula view mode. Activate Excel and activate the upper left cell where you want to paste the formulas.In Notepad, press Ctrl+ A followed by Ctrl+ C to copy the text.Press Ctrl+ V to past the copied data into Notepad.The easiest way to do this is to press Ctrl+ ` (that character is a "backwards apostrophe," and is usually on the same key that has the ~ (tilde).
